I have successfully compiled and installed Gnucash 1.2.1 on my RH 6.0
system, and am now ready for the next level of (challenge | frustration).
If anyone can help with the following, it would be greatly appreciated.
1) The on-line documentation claims, wrongly, that the installed version
is a relatively buggy older one (1.10.1, I think). I, a nervous new user,
did not trust what I'd done. I went so far as to scrape my drive clean of
every gnucash vestige, download the tarball and reinstall from scratch
before I really believed the documentation was wrong. Fixing this would
improve user confidence no end.
2) There appears to be no way to make a transaction into a transfer after
it has been entered.
3) Similarly, there appears to be no way to attach an account to a parent
account after it has been created.
4) There are many ways to innocently corrupt a gnucash .xac file so that
the application cannot read it and crashes on the attempt. The .xac file
is not ASCII, nor is it readable (and thus repairable) by any other
application I know. If a script or extension made it possible to read and
recover the file, I would then feel that I could enter a bunch of data
without fear of losing it. Additionally, I could then export and import
files from, e.g., gnumeric. Am I missing something -- is there a built-in
way to export or import between .xac and some neutral file format? Has
anyone out there written a plug-in?
Praise and thanks are due the developers of this very promising
application. Here's hoping it gets out of beta and starts receiving the
attention it deserves soon!
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